Spurt

/spɜːt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
2. (intransitive) To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
3. A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
4. (slang) Ejaculation of semen.
5. (obsolete) A shoot; a bud.
6. A moment, a short period of time.
7. A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development.
8. The act of spurting, or something spurted

Example Sentences

Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, / Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.

With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some to the . . . Oh, my God! My God! What have I done?

In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.

a spurt of water; a spurt of blood

"Clean all your spurt off me, man." And so I did.

The Garden Sperages[…]send out at first certaine greene spurts or buds peeping forth of the ground.

The boss's visit prompted a brief spurt of activity.

I seem to remember talking wanderingly to myself during that last spurt.

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Word Forms

• spurts
• spurting
• spurted
• spirt

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